| Acronym | Meaning |
| OTA | Office Of Technology Assessment |
| MPDATA | Multidimensional Positive Definite Advection Algorithm |
| ONR/BO | Office Of Naval Research/Branch Office |
| AWP | Aviation Weather Program |
| WFO | Weather Forecast Office |
| GC-AED | Gas Chromatography-Atomic Emission Detection |
| ABS | Automatic Backup Shutdown |
| DIG | DOE Interaction Group |
| SAVE | Stratospheric Aerosol Validation Experiment |
| SMS | Synchronous Meteorological Satellite |